Oracle (Kittie album)

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Oracle
Kittie Oracle.jpg
Studio album by
Kittie
ReleasedNovember 12, 2001 (2001-11-12)
RecordedJuly 21 – August 14, 2001
Studio EMAC (London, Ontario)
Genre
Length47:41
Label Artemis
Producer
Kittie chronology
Paperdoll
(2000)		Oracle
(2001)		 Safe
(2002)
Singles from Oracle
  1. "What I Always Wanted"
    Released: October 9, 2001
  2. "Run Like Hell"
    Released: January 16, 2002
  3. "In Winter"
    Released: May 13, 2002

Oracle is the second studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie, released on November 12, 2001, through Artemis Records. Produced by Garth Richardson and co-produced by vocalist and guitarist Morgan Lander, the album saw Kittie transition towards an extreme metal and death metal-based sound, moving on from the nu metal sound of Spit (1999). The album was recorded as a trio, following the departure of co-founding member and guitarist Fallon Bowman weeks before recording was due to commence; Jeff Phillips was subsequently brought in as an additional guitarist for the band's live performances in support of the album. Oracle was Kittie's only album with bassist Talena Atfield, who left the band four months after its release.

Contents

Oracle received generally mixed reviews from critics, who acknowledged Kittie's musical growth but felt that the album lacked originality or a distinct identity. The album debuted at number 57 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 33,000 copies in its opening week, and also made appearances on the German and UK Albums Charts. By 2004, the album had sold 220,000 copies in the United States. [1] Kittie embarked on an international tour in support of the album from August 2001 to February 2003.

Background and recording

In November 1999, Kittie released their debut album Spit, through Ng Records. Shortly after the album's release, Ng was acquired by Artemis Records, who gave the album a wider release on January 11, 2000. [2] The album was a commercial success, becoming certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [3] The band toured heavily in support of the album, and made appearances on the Ozzfest and SnoCore tours in 2000 and 2001. [4] [5]

Artemis wanted Kittie to begin recording a new album after the Ozzfest tour in September 2000, [6] which the band refused to do, as they felt that they weren't finished touring. [7] Nevertheless, they began working on new material whilst out on the road, and during their tours in support of Spit, Kittie debuted the songs "Pain" and "Mouthful of Poison" live. [5] [8] In early 2001, Kittie's vocalist and guitarist Morgan Lander indicated in various interviews that the band's next album would be "more aggressive" than Spit. [5] [9] Once touring wrapped up in February 2001, the band begun jamming new material together at Morgan and drummer Mercedes Lander's parents' house in London, Ontario. [9] [10] Whilst the band worked on the music together, Morgan wrote its lyrics. [11] As with Spit, the band would composing the music first, and then using that "as the backdrop behind the vocals." [9] Kittie found writing to be difficult and frustrating; [12] Mercedes found writing to be particularly hard, as she had not "come into to [her] own for writing songs" at the time. [13] Writing was finished by June 2001. [14]

By May 2001, Kittie were booked to record Oracle at EMAC Recording Studios in London, Ontario with producer Garth Richardson, who worked with the band on Spit, between July 21 and August 14, 2001. [15] Morgan had indicated a few months prior that Kittie would likely record with Richardson again as "He lets us do whatever the hell we want". [10] Weeks before recording was due to begin, [16] however, co-founding member and guitarist Fallon Bowman left Kittie due to creative differences with Morgan and her own struggles dealing with the band's newfound pressures. [17] [18] On July 1, 2001, the band performed their only concert for that month in Alberquerque, New Mexico with a then-unknown male guitarist, sparking rumours about her departure. [19] On August 9, 2001, Artemis Records announced that Kittie would be continuing as a three piece (Bowman was not named in the statement), with Jeff Phillips, the band's guitar tech, filling in as a touring guitarist. [20] [21]

As a result of Bowman's departure, Morgan recorded all of Oracle's guitar parts herself. [22] Richardson said that recording the album was easier than its writing process due to Morgan and Mercedes "knowing what they wanted to do". [23] In a 2001 interview with Guitar World , Morgan said: "We've never been ones for frivolous experimentation in the studio—we [Kitte] just [wanted] to make a straight-ahead metal record. Our attitude was, Don't fuck around; don't play bloops or bleeps." [24] Morgan and bassist Talena Atfield recorded their parts "using, essentially, their live rigs"; a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifer (occasionally an Egnater) and a Ampeg B5R amp, respectively. [24] The album was mixed by Randy Staub at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, and it was completed on August 28, 2001. [25] The recording of Oracle also marked the first collaboration between Kittie and Siegfried Meier, an assistant engineer who would go on to produce two of their later albums, In the Black (2009) and I've Failed You (2011). [26]

Composition and lyrics

Oracle has been described by critics as death metal, [27] [28] [29] nu metal, [30] [31] [32] [33] and heavy metal. [34] According to Spin , Oracle "drops its predecessor's alt-rock affections in search of a 'pure metal' sound". [35] The album contains heavy, chopping guitar riffs and percussion, [36] [28] and features screamed, growled and clean singing. [37] [36] [38] The album's sound was also compared to Pantera. [27] [39] In an interview with The GW Hatchet , Morgan claimed that the band "haven’t written [new material] in 4 or 5 years", and that the band members were only 14 years old when writing their debut album. [9] She also acknowledged a change in influence from their early days, stating, "Then we listened to bands like Nirvana, Silverchair, and Alice in Chains. Now we listen to stuff like Cannibal Corpse and Nile." [9] In a 2007 interview with the Cleveland Scene , Morgan additionally stated:

"[Oracle] was [an] album that had to be done. It was heavier, faster, more screaming — it was sort of our time to prove that we weren't gimmicks, that we weren't what a lot of critics wrote us off as, that we were a real metal band, and [so] we wrote a real metal album." [40]

As she had on Spit, Morgan based Oracle's lyrics off of own personal experiences. [41] However, she noted that they were written from a broader, less localized perspective than she had done previously: [41] "I know myself a lot better than I did five years ago so I feel comfortable writing things. It's not always about anger and hate." [42] The album does not feature any swearing. [42] "Mouthful of Poison" is about "professional jealousy", [35] and "people that spew a lot of shit - their assumptions about other people." [8] "Severed" is about "feeling hopelessness and abandonment". [35] Kittie originally recorded their cover of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" for a scrapped Pink Floyd tribute album; they had covered the song during their tours in 2000, [43] and included on Oracle "to get it out of our hair", according to Morgan. [44] "Pain", which was written during the Ozzfest tour in the summer of 2000, discusses "the stresses of a grueling [sic] tour schedule". [10] "What I Always Wanted" is about Kittie's newfound pressures for success. [25] [45] "Safe" is about hope, and "having a dream and being patient about achieving it." [46] The closing track "Pink Lemonade", which is over ten minutes long, was compared to the Slipknot songs "Scissors" and "Iowa". [32] [47] Mercedes said that with the song, Morgan "wanted to kind of show that some things even if they look pretty and inviting sometimes have a darker ugly side to them." [48]

Explaining the album title, Morgan stated:

"An oracle speaks of truth, and sort of foresees the future. This album is a coming-into-our-own album. We've found our own sound, and it's our truth. If you're not feeling in your heart what you're putting in to music, it's not worth a thing-I'm all about integrity, and keeping things pure and true, the way you intended them to be. There is a lot of emotion manifested into this really aggressive, raw sort of album, and it comes out in the music. I found out after we named the album that our ears have an oracle, and so do our hearts-So Oracle pertains to music, emotions, your heart. There's a lot that is intertwined." [34]

Release

Promotion

Artemis Records shipped 400,000 copies of Oracle to stores before its release. [49] Originally set for release on October 30, 2001, [21] its release date was pushed back due to the September 11 attacks. [50] The album was released in Europe on November 12, 2001, [51] and in the United States the day after. [52] The lead single from the album, "What I Always Wanted" was first released as on October 9, 2001. [53] A music video for the song was released later that month; it was directed by Thomas Mignone, and "concerns the self-destructive consequences of greed". [54] The single peaked at number 36 on Billboard 's Active Rock chart, [55] whilst the video received heavy airplay on the MTV, MTV2, MTVX and MuchMusic channels. [49] On January 16, 2002, Kittie released "Run Like Hell" as a digital-only single. [56] That same month, Artemis serviced the Live in Hell EP to radio stations, featuring the song and three live tracks recorded in Detroit. [57] [58] The album's third and final single, "In Winter", was released on May 13, 2002. [59] In addition, Kittie self-financed two live music videos for "Run Like Hell" and "Pain". [60] [61]

Oracle debuted and peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 33,000 copies in its first week, [49] [55] before dropping to number 116 in its second week. [62] The album remained on the chart for five weeks, after which time the album had sold 93,000 copies in the United States. [55] [63] The album also reached number 91 on the German Offizielle Top 100 Albums chart, and number 121 on the UK Albums Chart. [64] By July 2004, Oracle had sold 220,000 copies in the United States. [1] Kittie has attributed the album's lackluster performance to a lack of advertising and support from Artemis. [60] [65]

Touring

On September 10, 2001, Kittie performed a one-off concert at the Highbury Garage in London, England. [66] [67] The band then embarked on an international tour in support of Oracle, starting with two tours of North America, from October 21 to November 23, 2001 and December 27, 2001, to January 26, 2002. [52] [54] [68] Ill Niño supported the band on both tours, with No One and Chimaira providing additional support on the second tour. [52] [68] From February 2 to March 2, 2002, the band toured Europe supported by Shadows Fall. [69] On March 18, 2002, Talena Atfield left the band. [70] In Kittie: Origins/Evolutions (2017), Morgan claimed that Atfield "was becoming disillusioned with being in [Kittie]" during the recording of Oracle, [71] and Mercedes claimed that Atfield "wasn't really around [for recording] to the extent Morgan and I were there, and Jeff [Phillips]. Jeff was there the entire time." [72] Two days later, the band recruited Jennifer Arroyo, formerly of the rap metal band Spine, as her replacement. [70] Arroyo and Kittie had first met each other in 2000, when both of their bands played on Farmclub.com . [70]

Arroyo played her debut gig with Kittie in Manchester, New Hampshire on March 29, 2002. [73] [74] From April 7 to April 21, 2002, Kittie embarked on the F.ck Yer Label tour with Skinlab, Flaw and My Ruin. [75] [76] On May 25, 2002, Kittie performed on the Kerrang! stage of the UK edition of Ozzfest at Donington Park, as part of the first (and only) European Ozzfest tour. [77] [78] In July and August 2002, the band toured with Shadows Fall, Poison the Well, Killswitch Engage and Hotwire. [79] [80] [81] In October and November 2002, the band toured with Ünloco, Acacia and Clockwise. [82] [83] Coinciding with the tour, Kittie released the Safe EP on November 19, 2002, which features five live tracks recorded at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California, on August 12, 2002, and two remixes of "Safe" by Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM. [82] The EP had sold 20,000 copies by November 2003. [60] In January and February 2003, Kittie toured the United States with Brand New Sin and Eighteen Visions. [84] [85] [86]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 56/100 [87]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [27]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [88]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [89]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [33]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [29]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [90]
NME 5/10 [28]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [91]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [36]
Spin 7/10 [92]

On review aggregator website Metacritic, Oracle holds a score of 56 out of 100, based on reviews from eight critics, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". [87] Writing for AllMusic, Bradley Torreano called Oracle "an average album by a promising band who needs to find a distinct identity". [27] Similarly, Tom Moon of Rolling Stone wrote: "Kittie sound like they want to pursue harder extremes but can't decide whether to snicker or snarl, to play doomsayer or dominatrix." [36] Hit Parader gave the album a B− grade and wrote, "There's no question that this is a better effort in a technical and song-structure sense than [Spit], but somehow it doesn't seem quite as satisfying". [93] PopMatters praised the album's musicianship and Morgan Lander's vocals, but felt that "its music relies too much on metal formula". [37] Catherine Yates of Kerrang! described the album as "simply not bad", with much of it being "a seamless, streamlined execution of pretty unoriginal material" lacking in creative moments. [90]

Imran Ahmed of NME found Oracle to be "plain overbearing", and "a violent marriage of melody and brutality that makes for a highly uneasy listen". [28] Q magazine criticized the album as "one-dimensional" and "uninspired", [91] whilst Ben Mitchell of Blender dismissed it as "Entirely dispensable". [89] Conversely, Alternative Press saw Kittie as having "[moved] from novelty status to bone-crushing legitimacy", [88] and Ollie Appleby of Drowned in Sound lauded the album as "One of the best albums this year, one of the most together albums of the year, [and] one of the most (internally) varied albums of the year." [29] Robert Christgau gave the album a one-star "honorable mention" ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ), commenting: "when they are good they are horrid". [94]

Oracle placed 20th on Metal Hammer 's "Albums of 2001" list. [95] Conversely, readers of Kerrang! voted the album as the tenth worst of 2001. [96] In September 2008, Hit Parader placed Oracle at number 82 on their list of "The Top 100 CDs of the 21st Century". [97] In 2024, Paul Travers of Metal Hammer ranked it as Kittie's best album. [98]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kittie, except "Run Like Hell", written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. [99]

Standard release
No.TitleLength
1."Oracle"2:02
2."Mouthful of Poison"4:38
3."In Winter"5:32
4."Severed"3:20
5."Run Like Hell" (Pink Floyd cover)4:09
6."Pain"3:49
7."Wolves"3:25
8."What I Always Wanted"3:43
9."Safe"4:12
10."No Name"2:14
11."Pink Lemonade"10:37
Total length:47:41
European limited edition CD (recorded live in Hultsfred, Sweden on June 15, 2000)
No.TitleLength
12."Spit"2:44
13."Brackish"2:54
14."Suck"3:19
15."Do You Think I'm a Whore?"2:21
16."Raven"4:00
Total length:63:07

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [99]

Kittie

Production

Artwork

Charts

Release history

Release history for Oracle
ReigonLabelFormatDateCatalog #Ref.
Europe
 CD November 12, 2001504810 2 [51]
United States Artemis CDNovember 13, 2001751094-2 [104]
Europe
CDAugust 16, 2004RCD17026 [105]
Europe Metal Mind CD (digipak)November 24, 2008MASS CD 1244 DG [106]
Various MNRK Music Group LP November 25, 2022MNK-LP-46810 [107]

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